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Friday, December 9, 2016

Rocco, Codie and Bingo show off their ribbon at the Atlanta Botanical Garden Reindog Parade

Last weekend we attended the annual Reindog Parade at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. It's one of our favorite events in the garden and the only day dogs are allowed in the gardens.

This year, Rocco and his pals Codie and Bingo went as the Reindog Fitness Pups. And we took home a third-place prize in the judging! The competition is fierce, so we were very proud of our fitness pups.

We wrote a poem that told of the dogs' hiking adventures and carried the sign that you can see in the photo above. See below for the full poem (we don't claim to be prize-winning poets!).

Codie, Rocco and Bingo at the garden entrance

Rocco is practicing his Fabio impression

Dogs and mums with Botanical St. Nick at the Reindog Parade

Codie and Bingo are the pups that Rocco has been hiking with as part of the Georgia State Parks Tails on Trails program. So the theme for these pups was very fitting! We have one more hike to do as part of this program... in Savannah! Since that one requires a road trip, we hope to do that one some time next month.

Our poem written for the Reindog Parade:

Reindog Fitness Team

With wagging tails and holiday bells, we three dogs are on a
hiking spree

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Check out the goodies in the Fido's Freebie Friday giveaways listed below. You can enter them all or add your own! We make it easy by linking them up all in one place.

If you're a blogger with a pet-related giveaway, be sure to link up! Please link directly to your giveaway, not to your home page. We post a new blog hop every Thursday afternoon at 4 pm ET.

We hope you enjoy the Fido + Fluffy's Freebie Friday blog hop that we co-host with DogTipper and CatTipper!

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Individual rules of entry and guidelines for winning may apply to each listing. DogTipper, CatTipper and To Dog With Love take no responsibility for the legality of the rules governing the listings on other sites and giveaways that are posted here. We simply provide this forum as a gathering place for pet products to be offered. Fulfillment of each giveaway is done by the blog conducting the giveaway, not by the hosts of this giveaway hop; please contact the giveaway host with any questions regarding a giveaway or giveaway prize.

Thursday, November 24, 2016

We're in Chicago for Thanksgiving and we sure enjoyed watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade and the National Dog Show presented by Purina this morning. Those are two of our favorite Thanksgiving Day traditions -- along with eating lots of great food and giving thanks with family and friends!

Here's another cool way to give thanks. Post on social media with hashtag #dogthanking and @Purina and Purina will donate $1 for each original post to the Canine Health Foundation, up to 50K. Post by Nov. 27 and share how you thank your pup!

Check out the goodies in the Fido's Freebie Friday giveaways listed below. You can enter them all or add your own! We make it easy by linking them up all in one place.

If you're a blogger with a pet-related giveaway, be sure to link up! Please link directly to your giveaway, not to your home page. We post a new blog hop every Thursday afternoon at 4 pm ET.

We hope you enjoy the Fido + Fluffy's Freebie Friday blog hop that we co-host with DogTipper and CatTipper!

Good luck!

Individual rules of entry and guidelines for winning may apply to each listing. DogTipper, CatTipper and To Dog With Love take no responsibility for the legality of the rules governing the listings on other sites and giveaways that are posted here. We simply provide this forum as a gathering place for pet products to be offered. Fulfillment of each giveaway is done by the blog conducting the giveaway, not by the hosts of this giveaway hop; please contact the giveaway host with any questions regarding a giveaway or giveaway prize.

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

It's a little known fact that dogs were actually the first Pilgrims. Today, Rocco is re-enacting how the first Thanksgiving came to be... from his point of view. We hope you enjoy it! 🐾

After a long and treacherous journey, the first Pilgrim dogs sailed across the ocean blue and crashed into Plymouth Rock. The year was 1620.

The first winter they were cold and hungry.

Then the Indians came along and taught the Pilgrim dogs a few tricks.

And after that, food was plentiful and the Pilgrim dogs and all their friends enjoyed a bountiful feast!

All the dogs and their people were thankful for the food, and so the tradition of #DogThanking and Thanksgiving day dog shows was born.

This year, you can join in the tradition by posting your own original photo on social media and saying how you thank your dog.

For every original post submitted through November 27 that includes @Purina and the hashtag, #DogThanking, Purina
will donate one dollar to the Canine Health Foundation – up to $50,000 – to
help further pet health research. Submitted videos, photos and posts may be
shown during the National Dog Show Presented by Purina, on Thanksgiving Day
(Nov. 24 at noon in all time zones) on NBC.We're partnering with Purina to help bring you this fun and important tradition and will be tweeting live with the #dogthanking hashtag during the National Dog Show. See you there!

Thursday, November 17, 2016

A few weeks ago, Rocco and I attended Victoria Stilwell's Dog Training Academy where Rocco served as a learning model dog. Aspiring dog trainers from around the world attended the academy where they learned positive training techniques and practiced on "model dogs" like Rocco!

Rocco was eager to please the trainers because there were LOTS of treats! Positive reinforcement training is fun, he says! We both had a great time and I think Rocco taught the trainers a thing or two, too!

Check out the goodies in the Fido's Freebie Friday giveaways listed below. You can enter them all or add your own! We make it easy by linking them up all in one place.

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Good luck!

Individual rules of entry and guidelines for winning may apply to each listing. DogTipper, CatTipper and To Dog With Love take no responsibility for the legality of the rules governing the listings on other sites and giveaways that are posted here. We simply provide this forum as a gathering place for pet products to be offered. Fulfillment of each giveaway is done by the blog conducting the giveaway, not by the hosts of this giveaway hop; please contact the giveaway host with any questions regarding a giveaway or giveaway prize.

Friday, November 11, 2016

As cute as Rocco looks atop the a-frame, it's not exactly the form we were going for during a recent agility run. Since agility is based on speed plus accuracy, pausing to strike a pose doesn't help with speed points, even if it does garner a lot of style!

Rocco races over the a-frame after an unscheduled pit stop at the top

The good news is, Rocco only paused long enough for the photog to snap a quick pic and then he was back off to the races.

Racing to the all-important yellow contact zone. Rocco nails it though you can't see that here!

Rocco finishes his run with tremendous speed and finesse, landing another qualifying score toward his AKC master standard title.

Check out the goodies in the Fido's Freebie Friday giveaways listed below. You can enter them all or add your own! We make it easy by linking them up all in one place.

If you're a blogger with a pet-related giveaway, be sure to link up! Please link directly to your giveaway, not to your home page. We post a new blog hop every Thursday afternoon at 4 pm ET.

We hope you enjoy the Fido + Fluffy's Freebie Friday blog hop that we co-host with DogTipper and CatTipper!

Good luck!

Individual rules of entry and guidelines for winning may apply to each listing. DogTipper, CatTipper and To Dog With Love take no responsibility for the legality of the rules governing the listings on other sites and giveaways that are posted here. We simply provide this forum as a gathering place for pet products to be offered. Fulfillment of each giveaway is done by the blog conducting the giveaway, not by the hosts of this giveaway hop; please contact the giveaway host with any questions regarding a giveaway or giveaway prize.

Thursday, November 3, 2016

We've had a super busy week this week starting with our neighborhood Halloween parade. Each year the parade is led by the fire truck from our local Atlanta Fire Station #19, Atlanta's oldest fire station.

Some of the nice fire men give Rocco some fire fighting tips

Rocco got a chance to chat up some of the fire men before the parade began! Our neighborhood Halloween parade is a super fun tradition that we've loved to attend each year!

Then, later in the week we launched a brand new pet bed brand along with some other great sleep-related products. Some of you may know that I'm working with Yogabed, one of the leading online mattress retailers. I've been sleeping on a Yogabed for about a year and absolutely love it. And now, we've got a Yogapet pet bed, so Rocco can enjoy the comfort of his own Yogabed.

Check it out and let me know if you can find Rocco on the website! Hint: it's in this link. We'll be talking more about it in weeks to come.

In the meantime, it's time again for Fido + Fluffy's Freebie Friday, the weekly blog hop for pet-related giveaways!

Check out the goodies in the Fido's Freebie Friday giveaways listed below. You can enter them all or add your own! We make it easy by linking them up all in one place.

If you're a blogger with a pet-related giveaway, be sure to link up! Please link directly to your giveaway, not to your home page. We post a new blog hop every Thursday afternoon at 4 pm ET.

We hope you enjoy the Fido + Fluffy's Freebie Friday blog hop that we co-host with DogTipper and CatTipper!

Good luck!

Individual rules of entry and guidelines for winning may apply to each listing. DogTipper, CatTipper and To Dog With Love take no responsibility for the legality of the rules governing the listings on other sites and giveaways that are posted here. We simply provide this forum as a gathering place for pet products to be offered. Fulfillment of each giveaway is done by the blog conducting the giveaway, not by the hosts of this giveaway hop; please contact the giveaway host with any questions regarding a giveaway or giveaway prize.